Vermont

More than 30 VTrans employees left Sunday for Foxborough, Mass., to help with cleanup. WCAX-TV (http://bit.ly/V7Ht3b) says the workers will be helping with snow removal for the next four days.

Deputy Transportation Secretary Sue Minter says the state learned from Hurricane Irene that it's important to help neighbors. The last time Vermont was asked to help Massachusetts was following the blizzard of 1978.

The request for aid is part of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.

New York

Cleanup was under way on the area's commuter rails, the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Railroad.

Service was restored on two of Metro-North's three lines, said Salvatore Arena, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the railroad. Service on the third line, which runs between New York City and New Haven, Conn., will run on a normal weekday schedule on Monday between Grand Central Terminal and Stamford. Between Stamford and New Haven, trains will operate at about half of the normal weekday rush hour service level.

On the LIRR, service was mostly restored, except on the eastern parts of Long Island. On Monday, LIRR will operate on a nearly-normal weekday service, with some cancellations planned.

"A lot of progress has been made," Arena said.

Bellone said Suffolk County's school districts would individually decide whether to open or close. Newsday reported Sunday afternoon that nine districts had decided to close on Monday.

Thousands Still Without Power

BOSTON — More than 345,000 homes and businesses remain without electricity following the massive snowstorm that swept across the Northeast, with most outages in hard-hit Massachusetts.

Utilities in Massachusetts are reporting more than 243,000 of their power customers still in the dark Sunday morning, down from more than 400,000.

The storm started Friday night and dumped up to 3 feet of snow and knocked out power to more than 650,000 homes and businesses from Maine to Pennsylvania.

About 73,400 customers in Rhode Island and more than 25,000 in Connecticut still were without power Sunday morning.

Power still had not been restored to 3,000 customers in New York, down from nearly 12,000.

The Long Island Power Authority reported outages on Long Island had dwindled to about 400 customers by Sunday night.